Malibu Stakes
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The Malibu Stakes is a race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses of either gender held each December at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. The race is at a distance of seven furlongs on the dirt and is the first leg of Santa Anita Park's Strub Series.
A Grade I event with a $250,000 purse, it attracts some of America's best horses following the Breeders' Cup.
Tompion won this race in 1960.
[edit] Past winners
Winners of the Malibu since the beginning of the new century are:
- 2006 - Latent Heat (Edgar Prado)
- 2005 - Proud Tower Too (David Cohen)
- 2004 - Rock Hard Ten (Gary Stevens)
- 2003 - Southern Image (Victor Espinoza)
- 2002 - Debonair Joe
- 2001 - Mizzen Mast (Kent Desormeaux)
- 2000 - Love That Red